Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Concerns About The Calamities Of War

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From  Incidents in the life of Jacob Barker, of New Orleans, Louisiana: with historical facts, his financial transactions with the governme...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

David Beard, Contracting Agent

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Source Governor and judges journal: proceedings of the Land board of Detroit : "David Beard was a contracting agent for the...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

Job Wood

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From the  REPORTS OF COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ...: April 7, 1832 Petition of Job Wood That the said Wood enlis...
Monday, February 8, 2016

Heard In A Niagara Tavern

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An excerpt from   A Study Of Disaffection In Upper Canada 1812-15 , by Colonel Cruikshank,   online, from the Brock Univesity library coll...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

General Ebenezer Huntington

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Source "After the war, in 1792, he was appointed Major-General of the State militia, which office he held for thirty years. In ...
Monday, June 8, 2015

James Eutrican At The Soldier's Home

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Index To The Miscellaneous Documents Of The House Of Representatives [1883]....: Source Source James Eutrican is listed on th...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Post War - Manifest Destiny

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Source A question was posed at Answers.com: " How was the War of 1812 a precursor to Manifest Destiny ?" After the war of...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Educated At The Military Academy

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A list of officers in the army of the United States who hold brevet commissions for gallant conduct in battle, and for other causes, fro...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Damages At Fort Bowyer

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Fort Bowyer Morphed To Fort Morgan Congressional serial set, Issue 210 : "...the commanding officer had said store-house demo...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Claims From Washington Burning

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Digested Summary and Alphabetical List of Private Claims which ..., Volume 2 List of Private Claims Presented to the House Of Repre...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Colonel Joseph Cilley

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Memoirs and services of three generations ...Cilley : Joseph Cilley , at his election to the Senate, was an old man. Not only broken...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Shrieks At Hampton

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"THE WAR OF 1812: Writings from America's Second War of Independence"  From   Campaigns of the war of 1812-15 : ...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

The Court Martial Of Major Chunn

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Extract from the explanation of Major John Thomas Chunn 's Court Martial: Source Fort Harrison Circled Major Chunn, who was ...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Nancy Agnew And Others

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From the  United States. Congres. House. Committee on Claims . Published in Washington, D.C., D. Green, 1833. ...for the destruction...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

The War Was Over; The Hornet And The Penguin Hadn't Heard The News

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One of the holdings of the University of Michigan's Clements Library: Title: HM Sloop Penguin collection "Abstract: The HM Slo...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Heirs Of Jean Baptiste Couture

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Congressional Serial Set  and the heirs of Jean Baptiste Couture : "That this is one of the River Raisin claims. The proofs as ...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

An Unintended Sacrifice

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1812 Working Replica Boat - YouTube From  Historic Pittsburgh : "Mr. [Brintnall] Robbins was not only unfortunate in his ship...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Colonel King's Court Martial

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William King  was also a Military Governor of West Florida..... Fort King Was Named For Colonel William King A list of officers in ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

General Alexander Macomb, Samuel Champlain's Surety

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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AT THE SECOND SESSION ... ...Major General Macomb became one of the sure...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Embarked In Smuggling

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The war of 1812 was not wholly popular with the inhabitants of the coast towns of Maine. The embargo Act of April 4 , and the declarat...